A million thanks for the additional rules! I'll pass them along to my son who is helicopter pilot for a sheriff's office here in Florida. I would LOVE to have made my living flying, but it was just not in the cards. I am thrilled for him. One of his favorite sayings is "It's all fun and games, until the engine quits!". Amen.
And of course the old standard, "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots".
I'm an 'Bold Pilot', pally, and I scared myself enough times to become an 'Old Pilot'.
Here're the rotating-wing-thingy rules:
1) - 'A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round-and-round, and reciprocating parts going up-and-down - all of them trying to become random in motion, while zig-zagging on some general heading!
2) - Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so farking ugly that the Earth immediately repels them!
3) - The difference between a Helicopter-Pilot and a pig? - A pig doesn't sit in a bar 'till 0300 trying to pick-up a helicopter pilot!
4) - try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.
Where's your son flying, jwpjr? I'm in Pinellas County, near Pasco County. I know the Sheriffs' here, and I'd be happy to meet him. FReepmail only, of course, pal. Stay well, bud............FRegards